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"freedom and equality are sworn enemies," say Ariel Durant and Will Durant in their little book The Lessons of History, "and when one prevails the other dies"
Stress is essential to leadership. Living with stress, knowing how to handle pressure, is necessary for survival. It is related to a man's ability to wrest control of his own destiny from the circumstances that surround him or, if you like, to prevail over technology.
George Bernard Shaw said that most people who fail complain that they are the victims of circumstances. Those who get on in this world, he said, are those who go out and look for the right circumstances. And if they can't find them they make their own.
once one learns to accommodate the shocks of a stressful existence, his adrenalin, will power, and imagination are going to start churning to provide the maximum performance of the human mind.
Dialectic-the struggle of opposites-was the standard method of education in the universities of the high Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
sine qua non of a leader has
lain not in his chesslike grasp of issues and the options they portend, not in his style of management, not in his skill at processing information, but in his having the character, the heart, to deal spontaneously, honorably, and candidly with people, perplexities, and principles.
One man's exception is another man's betrayal.
